The Research On Consensus Theories Of Pluralistic Society

The Core issues of this article is from political science normative analysisdiscusses the modern western scholars in thinking about how to resolve the social unityof pluralistic society, social solidarity and democratic legitimacy crisis begin to awareofthe consensus problem. If consensus for modern pluralistic society has irreplaceableimportant value and significance, then what is the basic connotation of consensus?where is the rational foundation of consensus? How many ways are there to realizeconsensus? How to reflect the limits and boundaries of Consensus? This paperattempts to try on the theoretical analysis framework of the above four issues, as far aspossible in the form of building consensus theory as a whole.This is a very challengingadventure, the authority of the academic resources at home and abroad will neverconsensus as a political theory of the core problems on system construction; This is yetanother attempt to have cognitive limitations, the establishment of the theoreticalframework and the selection of thinkers there are a lot of discussion and the expansionof space.On the core issues, the logical context is as follows: the first part is the theme ofthe challenges and difficulties of pluralistic society. First analyzes the theoreticalbackground and practical background of consensus problem: value pluralism andNihilism of the challenge of modern society; Secondly discusses the heterogeneity anddifferentiation of modern society makes social solidarity, social unity and political legitimacy existing basis are in trouble, and be changed. Second part around the themeof "what is the consensus", by the method of concept analysis of dictionary definitionand basic connotation of the concept of consensus, the research analysis of dimensionsand related concept, the basic connotation of consensus is very important to clear, and itis also the core of this article must first clear problem. The third part and the fourth partis the emphasis and difficulty of this article. Consensus in a pluralistic society rationalfoundation and implementation issues is interactive relevance. Rawls proposed"overlapping consensus" on the basis of "public reason", habermas proposed the"discourse consensus" on the basis of "communication rational". The construction andimplementation of the consensus view above essentially change is the result of rationalbasis, namely is the emphasis to the practical reason, common ground,public reason,the acceptability of reasonable, dialogue, communication and compromise. This can beunderstood as the practice of the truth to, can also be understood as the whole politicalphilosophy thinking framework from the truth theory to the transformation of consensustheory, more understandable as from rational to reasonable.It is worth noting that the socialist countries are also facing the consensus problem,here are two theoretical problem of how to apply to the consensus. From the perspectiveof the thesis of this paper, the definition and judgment of the nature of a pluralisticsociety is crucial, if a broad understanding of western pluralistic society theoryapplicable risk problems may appear.